skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just got rid of a GE microwave which required me to set both the time and date before heating food after a power outage. I never did figure out what the date was for since it was never displayed and the clock did not automatically adjust for daylight savings time.

On top of that it had a dedicated button for toggling between AM and PM when setting the clock, which served no purpose whatsoever after that point. I wish I knew what the designer was thinking when they came up with that.
This is right on the money. Retail traders are getting used either way and both ways.
> My intuition is that most animals can’t or don’t distinguish much in what life they feed on and so if they eat humans, it’s simply according to nature and not problematic in the least.

I agree with the second part of your statement, and also much of the first part, sort of... but what I'm about to write may at first glance sound like a snarky gotcha. That's not my intention at all. It is an informed, educated view, and I don't like it any more than you might, because it bursts an illusion, at least for now.

Firstly, I think animals can distinguish what they eat in a very sophisticated way. At least as sophisticated as humans. Animals, after all, feed themselves with their own energy, guile and knowledge. They don't rely on supermarkets like many humans do, so they know exactly what is going on.

I am mostly vegan, because I prefer vegan food. When I eat animals on occasion, I do it in the same spirit you described in your consideration of animals who kill humans and other animals for food. It is part of nature, and I can embrace that.

You also said this is "a choice". Ethically, morally, spiritually, and out of shared interest, I can agree with you. However, I learned something recently from a radio show that followed a group of people who set up on virgin land, trying to be self-sufficient. What they found is important for our discussion.

It isn't possible for everyone who wants to live self-sufficiently to grow enough protein to survive. The soil in most places, and the climate won't support it. In order to live as a pure vegan, we need supermarkets and globalism, or at the very least, food transit on a global scale. Those giant South American soy plantations are built on destroyed forest habitat. :-(

The people in the radio documentary had to grow animals in order to obtain protein to survive. When they ate those animals, they did it with profound respect and understanding for the value of life, having raised the animals themselves. I've heard conventional farmers speak this way about animal lives too. It's something I think we need to understand and come to grips with intellectually, because the pure choice some people have of going vegan, is not a choice for everyone on the planet, at least, not with current technology and environmental constraints.
Time to get the VPN back up, and put subversion back online.
I kinda thought the point of the title was to show how what counts as AI is just the newest form a programming.
or we can decide to make them more transparent, because it's more advantageous for the majority.
This led me to dust off my old EEE-PC 701 that's currently running Puppy Linux, and get annoyed again at how Asus destroyed the screenspace by adding those two stupid speakers around the monitor and put it back in its drawer with the rest of the computers I no longer use.

It worked perfectly with Fluxbox, though. I miss Fluxbox, haven't found a suitable replacement yet.

But I mean our phones are already more cyberpunk than Neuromancer's decks in all but aesthetics.
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I thought that takes a lot of time though, because of SEC filings, after which the bubble could be over. Or are they allowed to hold on to a bunch of ready-to-go shares?

(Honestly asking and don't know, everyone please only answer if you have knowledge of how these kinds of things work and are able to identify and explain away the relevant confusions.)
It does not, no.
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uBlock or uBlock Origin? They are not the same thing.
This below 35 yr old discovered a fax machine. You won't believe what happened next!

Better?
This is awesome. I had so much fun with tilt brush, but felt that there were just a few things I'd change. Maybe I will now after I get done with all the other things I'm doing...

I might actually be able to use it (with these modifications) to help me with some of my other projects :)
I'm pretty sure we'll just downgrade to free, or move away after this. We only use the MR approval features from bronze, and that's proooobably not worth the price of premium. But who knows, since we have to contact a sales rep to "guide you through your transition discount offers.
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When standing on the shoulders of giants, it’s best to be compassionate in evaluating the implementations of the past.
I was a long-term Fios customer in SoCal, and they were indeed very reliable up until Verizon sold the local service to Frontier. Glad to hear they're not a problem for everyone at least.
We do have some drives that we use as boot drives and for logging. We write about them a bit in the post - they're primarily SSDs, so not included in the overall mix of data drives!
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I agree. It's useful to have competitive validation. I hope you succeed.
How does does one use over 1TB a day?
Security stuff is interesting even in the case where all your employees are saints.

If you are building a docker image for example, you likely are doing a pull from docker hub, the security scanning software can help you catch security issues there.

It can also help with things like dependencies in your node projects, python projects and more (at least, that is what the security scanning software we use at $work does, I assume gitlab is similar).

It's not about employees pushing malicious code, it's about catching issues with dependencies further up the stack, to make sure that the end result you are pushing to your servers/users is not vulnerable.
Some time ago they made the pricing for hosted and on-prem the same.
Plex seems to be winning in terms of ease-of-use, but aside from out of the box operation, what are the key differences between this and a kodi/retropie combo?
Ad networks had their chance, it's done now.
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Wow 1TB per day? What is using all that bandwidth? (if you don't mind me asking)
A coworker sent me a block of python code that wasn't working, asking if anything looked off. It took me a bit to grok what each line was doing, what values were getting stored in what variables, and what values were being returned from what functions. If everything was typed I would have been able to understand it quicker.
People accept that in the USA. Privacy laws in most countries make the free interchange of such information illegal
I vastly prefer working at a company that pays well and will attempt as far as a company can to care about me as an individual. My point was that it's a common error, particularly amongst people new to the workforce to mistake the impression of caring for actual caring.
I still use checks because in the US there are certain things you can't use a credit card for, e.g. loan payments.

I pay contractors with checks because almost none accept credit cards and cash gets cumbersome once you start getting into 4 and 5 digits.

My local utilities all charge a "convenience fee" of a few dollars when paying online or with a credit card. Sending a check in the mail costs me only $0.50. (Even though it costs them some employee's wages to handle my envelope and cash the check. Go figure.)

Checks are also convenient for transferring small amounts of money to friends and family. Yes, there is Paypal and the like and some of them don't even charge fees but I trust my bank way more than I trust a random company with direct access to my bank account. (Paypal in particular have proven over and over again to be untrustworthy in this regard, which is why not only do I have two Paypal accounts--one for buying and one for selling--but I also have a special "firewall" account between PayPal and my main checking account. This is so that the most they can grab is a couple hundred dollars on average, rather than some arbitrary fraction of my life's savings.)

Checks are sometimes the easiest (or only) way to move large amounts of money between my own accounts. There was a time where most online bank accounts would let you make ACH ("electronic checks") transfers to any other account, but they seem to be moving away from this, I presume due to its high use in fraud.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> If they've hit on a different access pattern that is more gentle, that might be something useful for posterity and I hope they dig into that possibility.

Internally at Backblaze, we're WAY more likely to be spending time trying to figure out why drives (or something else like power supplies or power strips or any other pain point) is failing at a higher rate, than looking into why something is going well. I'm totally serious, if something is going "the same as always or getting better" it just isn't going to get much of any attention.

You have to understand that with these stats, we're just reporting on what happened in our datacenter - the outcome of our operations. We don't really have much time to do more research and there isn't much more info than what you have. And if we stumbled upon something useful we would most likely blog about it. :-)

So we read all of YOUR comments looking for the insightful gems. We're all in this together desperate for the same information.
And yet, surprisingly, almost no one is aware of it.

I have informed many of my technophile, uBO/ABP friends and colleagues that it’s possible, and not one of them was aware before I told them.
I think the brain drain argument matters far more to developing countries that export engineering, medical and scientific expertise abroad.

Canada isn't exactly falling apart because Waterloo grads are leaving to work on Doordash's algorithm.
Isn't that exactly what happened with home ownership? Everyone levers up to buy a home, real estate goes into a bubble, and when it would normally crash, the government comes out in force with grants and easy credit programs ("Making Home Affordable" etc) because those malinvestors dominate the voting pool.
this talk is phenomenal thank you. he explains (timestamp: https://youtu.be/mwrA5IRGpfU?t=330) why he didn't go with Rust and it's quite puzzling what he says. I don't know enough about Rust if that's the case. To rephrase:

"Rust was an obvious contender but it lacked good support for wlroots. there was a project which attempted to address this but they gave up after 12 months of work and 1000 commits. Rust's strong safety guarantees and memory management conflict with wlroots which assumes a longer lifetime of pointers. If you unplug your monitor with wlroots this pointer receives an event that means the output has disappeared and needs to be validated (see here https://way-cooler.org/blog/2019/04/29/rewriting-way-cooler-...).*

This is strange because Rust positions itself as a system language so I'd have imagined these scenarios are all over the place and unsafe Rust would be the way most of this is solved?
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Remind me of webplatform.org another documentation project supported by multiple industry players. In the end everyone just went back to MDN.
Same, with a privacy-related caveat.

I remain logged in on Firefox only, with an extension that blocks me from accidentally visiting any other sites that are not on the "allow-list".

For Google sites, I used to use Firefox but at one point it said Firefox support was deprecated so now I use Chromium-based SSBs.

For open web browsing, I used to use Chrome but now use Safari. I never login to any site on Safari and regularly clear the site data. I can't use incognito mode because I want to keep the history which is useful to me, but I suppose at some point I'll just make an extension to log my own history.

Regarding auth session duration, I noticed that Google seems to have a much shorter session lifetime if you don't use 2FA. Not sure if other sites do that. I rarely look at FB/Twitter so it never surprises me if they ask for the password.
Thanks Andy! Without me digging through the SMART data, has there been any difference in data center temps over the years for Backblaze? I ask because I've personally seen disk life vary greatly between "warm" datacenters (closer to 79F) and "cool" datacenters (closer to 72F). I don't have a huge dataset, only anecdotal evidence, but it seems to me temperature plays a pretty big role in drive longevity. Have you guys found the same, or is this a variable not controllable by Backblaze?
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According to MDN, Safari 14 is the first to support preload.
> Dark mode is actually a CSS property and can be implemented by webpages directly.

I know, but I don't want to rely on their goodwill.

I want the browser to provide a dark mode that work in all cases, therefore:

- if webpages advertise a support of dark mode, oblige them

- if they don't, invert colors and use any other tricks as required

On Linux, Edge is the safest and the simplest way to always have a dark mode everywhere.
So while I'll agree there are dangers, to play devil's advocate:

You ever see one of those crazy anime-inspired movies like Pacific Rim, with giant humanoid fighting robots? I was watching a video that discussed the practicality of this. On the surface they are completely ridiculous and ineffective. The video argued, however, that one reason an advanced society might create a machine like this is to reduce training costs. It takes knowledge and skill to do something like fly a plane or operate a tank. However every grunt soldier knows how to run, punch, and use a gun. If you can make giant robots with giant guns and a brain-computer interface, suddenly anyone can drive a superweapon.

The same kind of argument applies to AI and machines. We have massive amounts of knowledge and culture encoded in natural language, designed to be read and understood with human capabilities and logic. We have buildings, cars, appliances, machining tools, etc., all designed for human bodies. General AI that can think like a human (but faster) can quickly utilize all that knowledge, and humanoid robots (but stronger) can instantly utilize all that infrastructure. From that perspective it's an enormous value gain and not an unhealthy fetish.
this. this is the way i solve this. They can use all the cookies they want, ublock tends to just eliminate all of it.

Overall FF has been incredibly user friendly making all sort of plugins that focus on privacy possible, while Chrome has been as hostile to it as possible.
Modern media is much more resistant to this kind of stuff.
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Or enable private browsing all the time. You'll have to log into your accounts every time you open your browser, but that's not really a big deal with a decent password manager.

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-clear-firefox-cache...
Compliance is a huge issue because health insurance will do a lot to make you jump through huge hoops to get it. I have had prescriptions “disappear” into the CVS “specialty pharmacy” and you have to wait on the phone for hours for them to “find” it.
There are multiple paid self-hosted tiers, one of which is being phased out.
Why on earth am I getting a cookie dialogue that includes a checkbox for “personalization” and asks for permission to track me “to personalize content and ads” on the pricing page of a company that makes money selling an actual product?

Can't we do anything at all these days without pointless cookie dialogues and downright insulting behaviour?

I like GitLab, but I don't like getting advertising cookies stuffed down my throat for showing an interest in your offering.
It’s not if you’re retail but there are signs to indicate that professional traders drummed up retail over on r/wsb without any disclosures.
> It's fine to prefer Debian / Ubuntu but please don't repeat information that's a decade out of date :)

Fair enough!
I'm not trying to manipulate anyone. I'm voicing my opinion. I don't buy anything from advertisements. Period. When I need something, I shop for it. And if you think I'm alone, you're kidding yourself.
> So it makes sense to treat certain data as more sensitive.

I cannot change my name so easily as far as the Dutch government is concerned as well as that of many other European countries. I need a reason of significance and a simple “I wish to be forgotten and start a new life.” is not accepted, as it is in many European countries.

If the E.U. cared so much about this, it would mandate that it's member states permit easier name changes.

Simply put, it is easier for me in the Netherlands to have plastic surgery and change my biometric data, than it is for me to change my name so I am holly unconvinced by this argument and it seems ad-hoc to justify what is purely an irrational distinction.

> At the same time, the GDPR doesn't want to go overboard with regulation. Name and address are data that lots of businesses need to process -- eg. every online store needs to collect customer name and address and pass it on to payment providers, shipping companies, etc. It would be really inconvenient if you'd need explicit permission for each use ("Do you consent that I can tell the post office where to deliver your package?").

There are already exceptions in place in the law where data may be collected if it be essential for operations.

As it stands, companies may ask for my name and address when they have no need for it to process anything, this information can surely be used to uniquely triangulate my identity with little effort, far more effort would be required to do so with a picture of my face, or a scan of my retina.

This seems highly arbitrary and ineffective to me. I remain very much unconvinced that this distinction is one that was given any serious thought.

> Sure, someone may find a way to abuse a list of names and addresses, but it's just not as sensitive as other data.

It is far, far more sensitive.

Would you rather that your name and address be placed on H.N., or that your fingerprints or retinal pattern end up here? Would you rather a stalker have the former or the latter?

To triangulate a man's identity from biometric data requires specialized equipment, to do so from name and address is a trivial endeavor a layman can undertake.

> I think the GDPR actually strikes a great balance between protecting people's privacy and not inconveniencing businesses. If you only collect and process data that's absolutely necessary for providing your service, the GDPR won't inconvenience you much.

I do not. I find the distinction made here to be completely arbitrary and undeniable that name and address are far more sensitive and open to abuse than biometric data, the latter requiring specialized equipment to make use of.

Again, would you rather a stalker have your name and address, or your retinal scan?
In many parts of the world, data still costs, and it annoys me that if you pay for 10Gb a month, the sites you surf to are a few kb, and then up pop the ads which are Mbs and steal your data allowance. You're actually paying for ads you don't want.
I got a degree in literature (from a top 100 university) and I'd say it was possible to pass without applying yourself too much, but getting top marks for essays was very difficult.

Now that I've ended up working in software engineering, I wish I'd had the foresight to have done joint degree in computer science and literature. Applying NLP techniques to literature would have been a blast.
Browsers need to own tracking, and it's clear that Firefox and Safari agree.

I don't object to (silent, low resource, banner) ads, even targeted ones, as long as the targeted ads aren't building a comprehensive profile of me.

I think my ideal would be telling my browser a list of a couple interest areas (prosumer tech, sci-fi, dog peripherals) that the website could target on to serve ads. They'd get targeted ads, I'd get privacy, and I'd get ads that actually match things I care about.
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Not even proper care, it's extremely difficult just to get a lot of at-risk people tested (let alone tested regularly)
I have no technical understanding of fiber networks. The explanation that this was caused by one fiber line in Brooklyn being severed seems unlikely. Curious to see what the experts think.
Everything you said makes sense -- but at the same time, when building a SaaS offering, your initial product may have much less functionality than what you eventually plan to build.

If you start at the price you want to charge in the end, people will look at the product and say, you expect me to pay $X for that?

One thing that may work is to offer early adopters a lower price, and keep them at that price forever, while charging later customers more. But to do that, you need to raise the price for new customers early and often -- otherwise you'll end up with too many people at the lower price. And if your costs scale with the scope of your product, that could mean you're losing money on a large fraction of your users.
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Unlimited data is $30 extra.

https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/exp-unlimited-data
Two words: Venture Capital.

Most Canadian employers are not VC-funded, the pay they can offer has to be in line with general rules of finance: spend less than you make.

Compare that to something like Uber where the company makes 9-figure losses, and yet can afford to pay high six-figure salaries. Someone has to make up the difference, and as is often the case with tech companies, it'll be venture capital firms.
I loved the Acer Aspire One. It was perfect for programming on the train.
> If the point is a copy-paste raster image

There are other use cases though that aren't supported by PNG, such as vector images and animated images. Or more niche use cases like RAW images.
You seem to believe that saving is a virtue, that you get what you pay for, that interest rates have a natural level much higher than zero, and in 'diminishing returns'. I accept that you and many other people believe in those things, but I don't think they are universally believed in, not particularly supported by evidence.
> Democrats have voted against certifying 2000, 2004, and 2016

This is false. There were no votes against certifying in 2000 or 2016. (For there to be a vote, there must first be an objection signed by at least one member of each house.) An objection so raised triggers a debate in each house, after which there is a vote in each house.

In 2000 and 2016, no objection meeting the requirement was filed, so there was never anything for anyone to vote on.

In 2004 one objection was raised to Ohio’s votes with the required signatures (and that case was a very different thing than the 2020 one; the group of objectors — Senator Barbara Boxer and a number of members of the House — explicitly stated at the time that the purpose of their objection was to have the debate and draw attention to the issue of electoral reform, not to overturn the results; and they weren’t part of a broader movement headed by the defeated candidate painting the outcome as illegitimate.)
There's some more details here: https://support.plex.tv/articles/plex-arcade-faq/

Looks like it's built on Parsec + RetroArch.
This thread has a screenshot and description of exactly what I mean. It's happened to me pretty regularly. This is default FF behavior. https://superuser.com/questions/1451210/how-can-i-make-firef...
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I'm working on https://snowdrift.coop for that.

We could use help, particularly from anyone who's good with css.